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Charles Dickens Biography

 


Full Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens (early alias: Boz)
Date of Birth: Friday, February 7, 1812
Place of Birth: No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth England
Parents: Father-John Dickens (1785-1851); Mother-Elizabeth Dickens (1789-1863)
Education: Approx. one year at William Giles' school in Chatham, Kent (age 9-11); nearly three years Wellington House Academy in London (age 13-15); beyond this, largely self-educated.
First Published Story: A Dinner at Poplar Walk published in Monthly Magazine (December 1833)
Marriage: Catherine (Hogarth) Dickens (1815-1879) : married April 2, 1836 in St. Luke's Church, Chelsea : Separated 1858
Date of Death: Thursday, June 9, 1870 (stroke)
Place of Burial: Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, London

Major Works:
Pickwick Papers (serialised monthly 1836-37)
Oliver Twist (serialised monthly 1837-39)
Nicholas Nickleby (serialised monthly 1838-39)
The Old Curiosity Shop (serialised weekly 1840-41)
Barnaby Rudge (serialised weekly 1841)
Martin Chuzzlewit (serialised monthly 1843-44)
Dombey and Son (serialised monthly 1846-48)
David Copperfield (serialised monthly 1849-50)
Bleak House (serialised monthly 1852-53)
Hard Times (serialised weekly 1854)
Little Dorrit (serialised monthly 1855-57)
A Tale of Two Cities (serialised weekly 1859)
Great Expectations (serialised weekly 1860-61)

Christmas Books
A Christmas Carol (1843)

For further information visit:
http://www.dickensmuseum.com/